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Being frugal is a journey that looks a little bit different for everyone. Maybe you’re saving up for retirement or trying to pay off your house or medical bills. Maybe you just really want to spend a month in the Bahamas. Whatever your reason for taking your frugal journey, there are a few habits that all successful frugal people have. In fact, I’ve found...

Frugality is a grossly misunderstood concept. To most people, it means scraping by on the absolute least amount that you can, and sometimes simply going without. My friends often misunderstand me when I say that I can’t do something, or simply state that I’m going to purchase that in a couple months once I save up the money.
“You need to treat yourself...

There are plenty of words that have a undeservedly bad reputation, and ‘frugal’ has to be one of the worst. For most people, the world ‘frugal’ implies being cheap, mooching off of others, going without the pleasures in life, or simple penny-pinching. However, despite what you might have heard, that’s not at all what being frugal is...

Being frugal is, for some people, a choice. For others, however, it’s something of a necessity. If you’ve got a large family and you’re looking for ways to be a bit more frugal, then it can sometimes be hard to figure out where to make cuts and how to still live a frugal lifestyle. While every family is a little different, here are some ideas to...

At some point, we all find ourselves looking for ways to save a few dollars. It could be that you have been trying to live outside of your budget and it’s finally catching up with you, it could be that money is just a little tight, or maybe you’re saving up for a nice vacation or big purchase.
Regardless of the reason, if you’re looking for a way...

It seems that in today’s society, frugality takes low priority and American’s as a whole aren’t often very financially literate. Ultimately, it’s become a world with credit cards, calculators, and apps for budgeting. In my opinion, the heart of being frugal goes hand in hand with life before those things.
With that spirit in mind, today I’ve...

While I am obviously a big advocate for living a frugal life, it is often times looked down on as being a waste of time or even as being too extreme. I think the real issue at hand here is that people tend to confuse being frugal with simply being cheap. While there may not be any groundbreaking differences between being frugal and being cheap, there is definitely...

When you’re trying to be frugal, one of the hardest things is figuring out where you can make cuts in your budget. For most people, one of the first places is in the grocery aisle. But, if you’re trying to cut grocery costs, don’t fall into the trap of thinking that you have to eat only canned foods. In fact, the opposite is true: you should be...

So, you’ve got that perfect gift and you know that whoever you bought it for is going to be super excited about it. But, now you have to wrap it, somehow. But, if you’ve looked at gift wrap recently, you know that most of the non-creepy wrapping papers are upwards of $3 for a single roll. Talk about crazy! Sure, you could buy the weird deformed snowman...

The average American drinks two cups of coffee every day, and I am no different. I’m a coffee lover through and through, and apparently the rest of the country is too. Two cups every day will make a lot of old coffee grounds, right?
A big part of being frugal is not wasting things. If we can use every part of something or create new uses for old things,...